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  • Research from the Boardroom

    CEO turnover: Cross-country effects

    • 28 Feb 2024
    • Natasha Burns, Kristina Minnick, Laura Starks

    Chief executive officers (CEOs) are considered critically important to the functioning of a corporation, providing the key leadership role for the company's operations. Just as important is the corporate board that determines whether to keep or dismiss the CEO. The authors sought to understand important aspects of the board's contracting and monitoring processes, through which culture may affect CEO turnover.

  • New jobs, green jobs: Planet-friendly roles dominate hiring

    • 21 Feb 2024
    • Martha Muir

    In sectors from energy to construction and transport, government programmes such as the US Inflation Reduction Act, and the rise of ESG investment, are accelerating work towards net zero targets, and demand for people to do it. Green jobs, defined as roles focused on sustainability and environmentally-friendly activities, now make up a third of postings in the UK.

  • Employee Cut Backs

    UK recruiters register sharp rise in jobseekers as employers cut back

    • 17 Jan 2024
    • Delphine Strauss

    The growing pool of jobseekers reflects the growing trend of workforce restructuring and redundancy elimination across UK businesses. Employers are now tasked with raising offers to secure qualified jobseekers.

  • Working Mom

    FinecoBank takes on Italy’s women-in-workforce challenge

    • 10 Jan 2024
    • Amy Kazin

    Getting women into the workforce, and keeping them in the labour market through their child-rearing years, is a huge challenge for Italy, which has Europe’s lowest female labour force participation rate. Italy’s top company in the FT-Statista list of Diversity Leaders, strives to create an inclusive workplace in which all staff can juggle the demands of work and family.

  • Hit the snooze button: it’s good for you

    • 6 Dec 2023
    • Isabel Berwick

    Getting up to exercise at 4am like a CEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — the real health benefits are for later risers.

  • Wanted: in-house legal leaders who can interpret world events

    • 8 Nov 2023
    • Reena SenGupta

    Companies seek chief legal officers with an ability to assess geopolitical risk.

  • Aging counterparts

    What we get wrong about ageing and work

    • 11 Oct 2023
    • Pilita Clark

    There is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterparts

  • Automated stress detection might not be the office panacea it appears to be

    • 13 Sep 2023
    • Anjana Ahuja

    New technology intended for self-management could open the door to surveillance

  • Middle Managers

    ‘The flattening’: tech sector calls time on middle managers

    • 30 Aug 2023
    • Hannah Murphy

    Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap

  • Happy face

    Happy staff often make for satisfied shareholders, study finds

    • 9 Aug 2023
    • Andrew Jack

    Research supports business case for investing in worker wellbeing

  • Iese Business School in Barcelona

    FT Executive Education Rankings 2023: Europe on top

    • 26 Jul 2023
    • Andrew Jack

    European providers dominate the open-enrolment and custom course tables — with striking exceptions

  • The benefits of revealing neurodiversity in the workplace

    • 7 Jun 2023
    • Emma Jacobs

    Michael Queenan used to retreat to his bed for the weekend at least once a month. “I was just physically and emotionally exhausted all of the time,” says the chief executive and co-founder of Nephos Technologies, a UK-based data services company. “It just got worse and worse and worse.”

  • Corporate America’s gender gap

    Women struggle to close corporate America’s gender gap

    • 11 May 2023
    • Taylor Nicole Rogers, Madison Darbyshire

    American corporations held the first diversity sessions in the late 1960s, instructing leaders who were overwhelmingly white and male on how to manage the workplace after the US made it illegal to discriminate against employees based on sex or race.

  • Women have raced into the boardroom, but now comes the hard part

    • 4 Apr 2023
    • Pilita Clark

    What might an insurer, a housebuilder and two water companies have in common in early 21st-century Britain?

  • finance staff

    Finance staff ignoring mandatory office attendance demands, report suggests

    • 28 Feb 2023
    • Daniel Thomas

    Workers in financial services are often ignoring company rules on the number of days they should be in the office, according to a report sponsored by some of the UK’s largest financial institutions.

  • female executives

    Lack of female executives in UK boardrooms ‘appalling’, survey finds

    • 21 Feb 2023
    • Daniel Thomas

    British companies are guilty of an “appalling” shortfall of women in executive roles, according to a FTSE board report from Cranfield University and EY.

  • leaky process

    Communication is a ‘leaky process’

    • 7 Feb 2023
    • Isabel Berwick, Sophia Smith

    You have probably heard of radical candour, or radical honesty, as a way to change the way things are done at work. But are you aware of “radical rest”? As we head towards the end of another exhausting year, rest is likely to become a hot commodity in workplaces.

  • authenticity at work

    Authenticity at work doesn’t look the same for everyone

    • 24 Jan 2023
    • Isabel Berwick, Sophia Smith

    I lost my voice last week, which threw the Working It podcast schedule into disarray and confined me to bed.

  • boundary setting

    ‘Boundary-setting’ is a fancy way to just say no — but it works

    • 10 Jan 2023
    • Isabel Berwick

    A boundary used to mean the fence around your garden. A personal boundary, meanwhile, was the sizeable gap you deliberately left between your chair and that of the office creep at the drunken team meal.

  • greater employee ownership

    Greater employee ownership can make work fairer

    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Pete Stavros

    My story used to be a familiar one. I’m a first-generation college graduate from a hardworking, blue-collar family.